Julia started playing the keyboard at age 5, began piano lessons at the age of 8 and by the time she was eleven she was classically training her voice, as well as experimenting with other musical instruments including learning to play the acoustic guitar, double bass and saxophone.
Song writing came naturally to Julia and by the age of 15 she’d poured her teenage angst into an impressive repertoire of musical pieces. Many of Julia’s songs were inspired by her favourite composers Beethoven and Chopin and artists 'Muse, Pink Floyd and Radiohead. By the time she was 18, discoveries of Motown, dance music, pop and trip hop meant that not only did her style of writing change but that she decided against a career in opera and classical music.
Julia toured with many function/corporate bands over the years as well as with her own bands. This gave Julia the chance to meet many wonderful musicians and whilst in favour of persuing her songwriting she was fortunate enough to meet producer and keyboard player, Mike Corrigan.
Mike and Julia struck up a 4 year writing & production partnership, culminating in their club circuit duo, ‘Prophecy’ and the album ‘This Kingdom’.
Julia signed a contract with a London based Management Company, where she co-wrote with various songwriters including Jesper Mattsson (BMG), Mark Rankin, (Gunn) & Bob Weston (Fleetwood Mac). During these two years, Julia also worked with other professionals, including AT2, the producers behind the No.1 hit ‘Moving Too Fast’. In Italy, Julia recorded the album ‘Falling’.
With Julia's love of classical, trip hop and rock music she played in various bands with different line ups over the years. Having started out as a rock outfit, she decided to re form and get away from the traditional rock elements and go back to her roots and finally found the musicians and sound which helped produce her latest album 'Songbird'.
'Songbird' is a powerful, uplifting album which is very personal to Julia. The atmospheric, melodic melodies and haunting riffs produce a sound which totally conveys the eclectic message, which is put across by Julia's music and lyrics.
As well as the singing/songwriting, Julia is a vocal coach/singing teacher and teaches the piano. Julia teaches privately and in Schools around Brighton & Hove.